Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Deep in the back of your mind, you’ve always had the feeling that there’s something strange about reality. There is. Join Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick as they examine neurological quandaries, cosmic mysteries, evolutionary marvels and our transhuman future.

Episodes (10)

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

From the Vault: You’ve Got Pee-Mail, Part 3

The third and final installment of 'Stuff to Blow Your Mind's' deep dive into urine-based communication reveals that animal urine is far more than waste—it's a complex, dynamic language carrying information about health, dominance, emotional state, and even in

51mMay 30, 2026

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: The Crawling Eye

The 1958 British sci-fi horror film *The Crawling Eye*—originally titled *The Trollenberg Terror*—is reexamined in this episode of *Weird House Cinema Rewind* as a cult classic that defies its own genre conventions. Hosts Rob Lamb and Joe McCormick dissect the

1h 19mJun 1, 2026

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

The Thing Before the Beginning, part 3

The pre-creation state isn't nothingness—it's a paradoxical realm of neither existence nor non-existence, as revealed in the Rig Veda's Nasadiya Sukta, where the hymn opens not with a story but with a cascade of unanswerable questions. This isn't just poetic a

54mJun 2, 2026

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Smart Talks with IBM: Inside the Octagon: How AI Brings UFC’s Fastest Moments into Focus

What if the most important moments in a UFC fight happen too fast to see — not because they're hidden, but because our brains can't keep up? Alon Cohen, head of R&D for the UFC, reveals how the organization is using AI to make the invisible visible, turning ra

48mJun 3, 2026

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

From the Vault: The Invention of Roller Skates

The invention of roller skates wasn't a single eureka moment but a centuries-long evolution of wheels on feet, beginning with the flamboyant 18th-century inventor John Joseph Merlin, who famously crashed into a mirror at a masquerade ball while trying to play

57mJun 6, 2026

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams

Akira Kurosawa's Dreams isn't just a film—it's a cinematic dream journal that exposes the raw, unfiltered psyche of one of cinema's greatest auteurs. Far from a conventional narrative, the film unfolds as eight self-contained vignettes, each a surreal, emotion

1h 32mJun 8, 2026

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Diatoms and Diatomaceous Earth, Part 1

Diatoms—microscopic, photosynthetic algae with intricate, glass-like silica shells called frustules—are not just biological curiosities; they are planetary powerhouses, responsible for 20–30% of Earth's oxygen and 45% of oceanic primary production. When they d

52mJun 11, 2026

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Weirdhouse Cinema: Paganini Horror

Paganini Horror isn’t just a bad movie—it’s a masterpiece of intentional chaos, a cinematic Rorschach test where every frame screams defiance against the rules of coherence, budget, and genre. What began as a collapsed biopic about the devil-touched violinist

1h 47mJun 12, 2026

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

From the Vault: The Manta Ray, Part 1

Manta rays, often mythologized as vampiric sea monsters or death blankets, are revealed in this episode as gentle giants whose true nature is one of serene curiosity and ecological importance. The hosts, Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick, dismantle centuries of sa

47mJun 13, 2026

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Lady Terminator

In a wildly entertaining deep dive, Rob Lamb and Joe McCormick of *Weird House Cinema* dissect *Lady Terminator* (1988), an Indonesian folk horror mockbuster that reimagines James Cameron’s *The Terminator* as a supernatural, machine-gun-fueled saga of a venge

1h 14mJun 15, 2026

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